Conference etiquette and wifi

[chromatic]

On Monday 11 December 2006 06:15, jesse wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 09:20:33AM -0800, chromatic wrote:

> > On Sunday 10 December 2006 09:03, jesse wrote:

> > > Some of us wouldn't have the luxury of attending if we weren't also
> > > working during talks.....and in some cases on slides for the very
> > > conference.
> >
> > I've never understood this, and I'm a fairly busy guy myself.  I write my
> > presentation materials a ways in advance and still occasionally end up
> > with typos on them.
>
> That assumes that you know you're doing the talk in advance ;)

I've been to a conference or two; I'm comfortable assuming that most speakers 
know in advance.

-- c